[Scene: A museum. A tour guide is there talking to a bunch of people.]

Tour Guide: Legends hold it buried somewhere near a rocky desert, is a fable book, penned by ancient mystics, known as the Akashic Records. Believed to be a written account of all significant events throughout time. Powerful stuff. If someone were to get their hands on that, they could win the lottery or at least get tender. To know the future brings, obviously, ultimate power. Which is why everyone from Hera to Hitler has been looking for the records. But to find them, to find them, one needs a map. This tablet found in the Ivory Colls last year, is believed to be the very map. Although the engravings are of a lost language so far and undecipherable, even for scholars like myself but we're close. Whoever can decipher them first will know the exact latitude and longitude of the Akashic Records.

(You see a guy standing in front of it, writing something down on a notepad.)

Guy: Oh my God, that's it.

Tour Guide: Uh, excuse me?

Guy: Uh, no, no. Excuse me.

(He leaves.)

Tour Guide: If you follow me this way, I'll show you the next exhibit which is quite interesting.

[Scene: Bay Ridge Convalescent Hospital. The guy that was at the museum is there talking to his father.]

Guy: I cracked it, dad. The rest of the map. It was a transposition sequence just like you said and it's all in here. (He points to his head.) The location of the Akashic Records. Now, they're gonna come after me, just like they came after you, and I'm gonna be ready for them, dad.

(Phoebe enters holding a vase of flowers.)

Phoebe: Hey.

Guy: Hey.

(She puts the flowers on a table.)

Phoebe: How's he doing today?

Guy: The same. Thanks for always keeping his room so cheerful, Phoebe. I really appreciate it.

Phoebe: Oh, don't mention it. I mean, for all we know he knows they're here too, right? Isn't that why you keep talking to him?

(A doctor enters.)

Doctor: Eric, can I speak to you alone please?

Phoebe: Oh, uh, yeah. (She goes outside.)

Eric: I'm not moving him, Dr. Stone.

Dr. Stone: Eric, it's been six weeks. This faculty is not designed for long term maintenance.

Eric: Maintenance? This is my father we're talking about and he's gonna get better and he's gonna stay here.

Prue: Jack, uh, Jack Sheridan. The internet auction guy I met remember. I went to go get coffee, he was standing in front of me and then I went straight to the news stand and 'wham!' he was right there reading a magazine.

Piper: So he went from one place to another in a blink of an eye. So, you think he blinked?

Prue: Well, yeah, that's what warlocks do, right? Where's Phoebe?

Piper: She's volunteering at the convalescent hospital.

Prue: Great. Wait, you have to know if there's a warlock test.

Piper: How would I know?

Prue: I mean, well, you are a warlock magnet.

Piper: Am I never gonna live Jeremy down? You know, you had that Rex and Hannah thing at work.

Prue: Okay, fine. You get them in your love life, I've got them at the water cooler. What's up with the suitcase?

Phoebe: No, but he’s in trouble. I had a premonition today. A demon or warlock maybe, with a needle thingy on his finger and he was sticking it into Eric’s head. So, I came home to see what we were up against. You guys go deal with Jack and Dan, and I’ll go look on the Internet. I’ll tell you if I find anything.

Jack: (thinking) Mostly I put people in graves or incinerate them. (out loud) Oh, yeah. It was Walt Potarg at Berkley School and design. He was the best. (thinking) If she finds out that I’m lying, she’s gonna die. (out loud) Well, you know what? I’m a little late, gotta go. Good to see you again. (He leaves.)

Prue: Or, maybe they’re just twins. Okay you unfreeze them, if that prick doesn’t bleed, then that one’s dead too.

Piper: Alright.

Prue: Right, let ‘em go.

(Piper unfreezes them.)

Jack #1: Ow!

Jack #2: What’s the matter? She bite you?

Jack #1: Your shouldn’t be here.

Jack #2: Come on man. I couldn’t let you take all the blame.

Piper: He’s bleeding.

Prue: Alright, this is my sister, Piper, which one of you jerks is Jack?

Jack #1: Uh, I’m the jerk. This is my twin brother, Jeff.

Jeff: Nice to meet you. Look, sorry for the little tap dance earlier.

Prue: So, what exactly was it that you guys were trying to prove?

Jack: It’s just a little something we used to do growing Up.

Jeff: Yeah, so, you know when one of us would take an interest in someone…

Jack: Don’t get the wrong idea.

Piper: So, you’d send the other one to check out the merchandise, sort of kick the tyres?

Jeff: Crude but accurate.

Prue: (thinking) Still doesn’t explain why he wanted to kill me.

Piper: So, uh, Jeff, what is it that you do for a living?

Jack: Oh, great, this should be a conversation stopper.

Jeff: I own a mortuary. Actually, a whole chain of them.

Piper: (to Prue) Mortuaries.

Prue: (to Piper) Put ‘em in graves, set ‘em on fire.

Piper: Mmm hmm.

Prue: You know, you two should be ashamed of yourselves. (She walks up to Jack and slaps him across the face.) That’s for thinking you could get away with it. (Jeff laughs. Prue slaps him too.) And that’s for thinking you wouldn’t get slapped. Piper. (They leave.)

Jeff: I approve.

[Scene: Manor. Eric is sitting at a table. Phoebe brings out some tea and pours it in two cups.]

Eric: How did you know to be there to help me.

Phoebe: Uh, it’s a long story.

Eric: Shorten it.

Phoebe: I have this gift. I sort of know when things are gonna happen. If there’s gonna be trouble.

Eric: How?

Phoebe: Just something I was born with.

Eric: So, you don’t work for some government agency?

Phoebe: No, I’m just a girl. Now, let me ask you a question. This thing that you did, translating this ancient code or whatever. Why did you do it?

Eric: I did it for my father.

Phoebe: To finish his work?

Eric: People hurt him and I wanted to find out who and I want to get even.

Phoebe: Even out the risk of them hurting you?

Eric: He’s my dad. I love him and if I can’t have him back, I want justice.

Phoebe: I envy you.

Eric: You’re not close to your folks?

Phoebe: My mum is dead.

Eric: I’m sorry.

Phoebe: And my dad is gone.

Eric: You don’t know where he is?

Phoebe: I’m not really that interested.

Eric: I don’t understand that.

Phoebe: You don’t know my dad.

Eric: Do you?

Phoebe: No, I never got the chance to unfortunately. Okay, I’m a sucker for family. Follow me.

(They walk out the room.)

[Cut to the foyer. Prue and Piper enter.]

Piper: (Calling out to Phoebe) Jack’s not a warlock.

Prue: He’s a jerk.

(Phoebe and Eric enter the foyer.)

Phoebe: We’re going to the hospital. We’ve got to get Eric’s dad out of there and keep him someplace safe. Come on.

[Scene: Hospital. Prue, Piper and Phoebe enter it. The place is deserted. The phone rings at the reception desk.]

Piper: Where is everybody? Did you bring that dagger?

Prue: Yep.

(Eric walks up to the desk and sees the receptionist lying on the floor. Eric runs down the hallway.)

Phoebe: Eric, wait.

[Cut to Eric’s dad’s room.]

Eric: Dad, we gotta get you outta here.

(Prue, Piper and Phoebe enter.)

Phoebe: Eric…

Eric: I’m getting him outta here, Phoebe. (Dr. Stone and the collector blink in the room. Prue uses her power and they fly up against the wall. The two collectors disappear.) What’s going on?

Prue: Later.

Phoebe: Get him. We gotta get outta here.

Eric: Where’d they go.

Dr. Stone: Looking for that? (He holds up the dagger. He disappears.)

Prue: He's got the dagger.

[Cut back in the room. Prue walks outside and gets a wheelchair Dr. Stone appears behind Piper, grabs her hair and puts the dagger near her neck. The other Collector appears behind Eric and grabs him.]

Phoebe: Piper!

(Prue comes back in the room.)

Dr. Stone: Move and she dies.

(Phoebe grabs a vase of flowers and hits Dr. Stone over the head. He lets go of Piper and falls to the ground. Prue uses her powers and releases Eric from the Collectors grip. Dr. Stone blinks and appears next to Eric’s dad. Prue gets ready to throw the dagger at them and they hold onto Eric’s dad and blinks out of the room.)

Eric: Dad?

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[Scene: Outside the Hospital. Eric’s running down the stairs. Prue, Piper and Phoebe are chasing him.]

Phoebe: Eric! Eric, we still want to help you. Nothing has changed. (Eric stops running.)

Eric: No, everything has changed. Some kind of monster’s just took my dad.

Phoebe: They’re called warlocks.

Eric: Warlocks? What does that make the three of you?

Phoebe: Witches.

Eric: Forgive me, but what you’re saying is insane.

Prue: Eric, you believe in the Akashic Records and all the power they represent, right?

Eric: Yeah, I guess.

Piper: Well, most people think that’s a myth.

Prue: But you now know that it isn’t, so isn’t it possible that other things like witches and warlocks actually do exist?

Piper: And they can appear anytime, any place, which is why we need to get you back to the manor and you’ll be safer than anywhere else.

Phoebe: Okay, look, Eric. I am the same girl you met at the hospital a few weeks ago. The only thing that’s changed is now you know our secret.

Eric: It’s one hell of a secret.

Phoebe: Yeah, and I trust you with it. So please, trust me in return. Look, if we’re gonna save your father, we have to keep you safe until we figure out what we’re gonna do.

Eric: You do that. I have another idea.

(He walks off.)

Phoebe: Okay, I’m gonna go get him, you two get home.

(She runs off.)

Prue: Do we have to protect him?

Piper: He is pissing me off.

[Cut to the museum. Eric is getting a fire extinguisher.]

Phoebe: Eric, what are you doing?

Eric: You’ll see.

(They start walking through the museum.)

Phoebe: We shouldn’t be out in the open like this. It’s not safe.

Eric: Then go. I have something I have to do.

Phoebe: What? What do you have to do? Get busted, Eric. (They walk up to the map stone.) Wow, that’s the map stone isn’t it?

Eric: You know, my father thought it would be so wonderful translating it. A gift of knowledge, to usher the world into the new millennium.

(He gets ready to break the glass. Phoebe stops him.)

Phoebe: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?

Eric: If the Akashic Records are everything you say they are, they’re not a gift. I mean, the Warlocks shouldn’t have that knowledge and neither should the rest of us. With all the knowledge revealed, we could have no free will.

Phoebe: And no world as we know it.

Eric: Maybe no world at all. (Eric smashes the glass cabinet with the fire extinguisher. The alarm goes off. Eric gets the map stone out and throws it on the ground. It smashes. Everyone stands there shocked.) Now no one else will ever be able to translate the map. The only place of longitude as this is in my head. (They run off.)

A Guy: I’ll get security.

[Scene: Manor. Prue and Piper are walking up the stairs.]

Piper: Poor Eric.

Prue: He’ll be okay, we’ll figure this out.

Piper: Yeah, in the meantime warlocks have his father, I can’t imagine how helpless he must feel.

Prue: I can.

(They walk in the attic.)

Piper: Prue, a warlock didn’t take our father.

Prue: No, he left on his own.

Piper: Do you miss him?

Prue: I didn’t say that.

Piper: Do you think about him?

Prue: Why? (Prue starts looking through the Book of Shadows.)

Piper: Because I’m wondering if I’m the only one who does.

Prue: No, you’re not.

Piper: So you miss him.

Prue: I miss who he should’ve been and I miss who he never was but I don’t miss him.

Piper: I do.

Prue: Right, can we get to work.

Piper: Okay, let’s save someone else’s father instead.

Prue: The only way to protect Eric is to take the information out of his brain forever. The spell is right here.

Piper: Ah, but if we do that, Eric won’t have anything to offer the warlock and they’ll be furious and they’ll kill his dad.

Prue: Eric is innocent. Our priority is him.

Piper: Yeah, but they’re both innocents.

Prue: Piper, I hope it doesn’t come to this but we may have to make a choice.

Piper: Why? I mean, there’s gotta be another way with all the hocus pocus we have.

Prue: Still may not be enough. I mean, we’re talking about the future, everyone’s future.

Piper: So we have to sacrifice Eric’s dad?

Prue: For the greater food.

Piper: Man, you can dress it up anyway you want, it still stinks.

Prue: You know what? It sucks.

(The doorbell rings.)

Piper: Oh, that’s Dan. I gotta deal with him. You gotta figure out what we’re gonna say to Phoebe.

Eric: Uh, I’m just gonna go out and get some air. (thinking) The Oak Grove, Golden Gate Park.

Prue: Phoebe!

(Eric leaves. Phoebe comes in.)

Phoebe: Where is he going?

Piper: He was thinking Golden Gate Park.

Phoebe: Oh my God, the warlocks must of contacted him.

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[Scene: Golden Gate park. Prue, Piper and Phoebe get out of the car.]

Prue: Alright, there are oak trees everywhere.

Phoebe: (thinking) What if we’re too late?

Piper: Phoebe, stop thinking that.

Phoebe: Will you get out of my head please.

Prue: Alright, the Book Of Shadows said that their hunger is their all, so there must be a way to use the knowledge that they require against them.

Piper: Or use their greed to trap them.

Prue: Yeah, well, if all else fails, then we’ll freeze them and move them long along for Eric to get away.

Phoebe: And save his father. Right? Look, it just seems to me that we should do everything we possibly can to reunite Eric with his father. I mean, imagine a dad who actually wants to be with his father.

Prue: Pheebs, we’ll do our best.

Phoebe: Okay, then we should split up. The first one that sees him hollers.

(They all walk of in different directions.)

[Cut to Prue. She’s walking along and then a peacock makes a noise and runs past her. It scares her, she screams and puts her fists up. She calms herself down and continues walking.]

[Cut to Eric. He sees the collectors with his dad.]

Eric: Dad!

Dr. Stone: That’s close enough, Eric. I can restore him or I can kill him, Eric. That choice is mine.

Eric: Restore him or you don’t get what you want. That choice is mine.

Eric: Let’s check again. (He lifts up his shirt and there’s a gun in his pants.) Who’s got the upper hand?

Collector: Haven’t you been paying attention? That gun won’t do anything to us.

Eric: No, but it’ll blow my head off and if I do that, you won’t get the second half of the map. Restore him. (He holds the gun up to his head.) Now! (The Collector puts his needle finger in Eric’s dad’s head and restores him.) Dad?

(Phoebe sees them, runs up to Dr. Stone and kicks him. He falls to the ground. The other Collector walks up behind Phoebe and sticks his needle finger in her head. Prue finds them, uses her power and the Collector goes flying and hits the ground. Prue runs over to Phoebe.)

Collector: That’s right, witches, come and get me. (thinking) Don’t blink. Keep them focused on me. Let him surprise them from behind.

Prue: (thinking) Don’t freeze him.

Piper: (thinking) Why not?

Prue: (thinking) Didn’t you hear his thoughts? He’s playing decoy. Let him think that it’s working. (Dr. Stone appears behind Prue. Piper freezes them. Prue moves them closer together with their fingers near their heads. Piper unfreezes them and the Collectors’ fingers go inside each other’s heads. They disappear.)

Prue: You know, they really shouldn’t of given us the finger.

Piper: You read my mind.

(Phoebe wakes up. Prue and Piper walk over to her.)

Phoebe: Prue. Piper.

Piper: Are you okay?

Phoebe: I think so. What are we doing in the park? (Eric and his dad start waking up.) Who are those people?